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Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago

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273 points geox | 1 comments | 17 Jun 24 21:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cpncrunch ◴[18 Jun 24 04:25 UTC] No.40714063[source]▶
News article says humans, but earliest human (homo sapiens) was around 300kya. The actual paper uses the word hominids rather than humans.
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sydbarrett74 ◴[18 Jun 24 05:19 UTC] No.40714284[source]▶
Can we all agree that 'human' should be defined as all members of the genus Homo?
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1. bloak ◴[18 Jun 24 13:43 UTC] No.40717778[source]▶
A single-word common name usually refers to a genus: "oak" is anything in Quercus, "wagtail" is anything in Motacilla and so on. That's not conclusive because there are plenty of exceptions, and "human" could easily qualify as a special case, but I don't see why "human" shouldn't be any member of Homo.